Gusty winds throughout the Mojave Desert overturned at least 10 big rigs and prompted highway closures throughout Kern County on Tuesday, authorities said. No major injuries have been reported, said Officer Scott Wyatt of the California Highway Patrol's Mojave Division. The big rigs have prompted...

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The latest wave of sandwich shops (Hero Shop, Superba Food + Bread, Trencher) and modern Vietnamese cafes (East Borough, Phorage) in Los Angeles have generated tantalizing new spins on banh mi, the beloved Vietnamese sandwich that is the culinary result of French colonialism in Southeast Asia. ...

Monosodium glutamate: Love it or hate it? Some people are convinced it’s toxic, though there isn't much science behind that claim. Others compare it with table salt. Regardless of which camp you fall into, it’s no secret that MSG is used heavily in restaurants – especially in traditional Chinese...

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A former administrator at Palmdale School District and her live-in boyfriend pleaded no contest Tuesday to animal abuse charges, after authorities had to euthanize 19 pit bulls kept at the woman's property. In an Antelope Valley courtroom, Pauline Ruth Winbush, 53, and her boyfriend, Kevin Williams,...

Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a baby boy who died Saturday from injuries he suffered in a suspected assault at a home in Lancaster earlier this week, authorities said. The infant is believed to have been assaulted Tuesday evening at the home in the 43400 block of Gadsden Avenue,...

A mortuary worker has been arrested on suspicion of stealing a vehicle and a firearm from a dead man's home in Lancaster, according to authorities. No fewer than 48 hours after mortuary worker Fernando Moguel picked up the body of an elderly man who had died March 5, the man’s vehicle and firearm...

The secretive Skunk Works in Palmdale has over the years spawned such sleek aircraft as the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane and the F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter.Today, one of the facility's hangars houses a 120-foot-long, 21-foot-tall dirigible that resembles a cloud with three puffs — the prototype...

Lockheed Martin Corp. will give the media a first look at its Hybrid Airship prototype at the defense giant's Skunk Works facility in Palmdale on Wednesday. The 21-metric-ton airship has been touted as a way to deliver heavy cargo and personnel to remote locations that may be inaccessible to trucks...

Three men have been charged with hate crimes in an assault on Latinos at a Los Angeles County park, prosecutors said. Ian Plankey, Richard Daulton and Kevin Stewart pleaded not guilty Tuesday to two felony counts each of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of assault with force likely to...